Eat Food. All the Time. Mostly Junk. I can’t stop thinking about cupcakes. No, not chic ones from the bakery, swathed in caramel buttercream, $3.95 each—I mean real cupcakes, baked at home by Mom and the kids in a classic … Continue reading The way we eat
How Shopping For Yogurt is Like Buying a Car We could say that the wholesome trend in food was led by yogurt. FAGE was the first Greek yogurt sold in the U.S. Then there was Chobani, Danone, and General Mills. … Continue reading Our choice fatigue
Being Prompted To Think About Coffee Elevates Your Physiological Arousal And Focuses Your Mind, No Ingestion Required So entrenched is the association in our culture between coffee and ideas of arousal, ambition and focus that merely thinking about, or being … Continue reading Mere exposure matters
Can What We Eat Affect How We Feel? The patient, a 48-year-old real estate professional in treatment for anxiety and mild depression, revealed that he had eaten three dozen oysters over the weekend. His psychiatrist, Dr. Drew Ramsey, an assistant … Continue reading Nutrition and brain
When Ketchup and Parking Are Similar There is no such thing as one price for ketchup. Looking at how much shoppers paid for a 36-ounce bottle of Heinz ketchup (in 2007), we can see $1.66 was the average. However, among … Continue reading Price dispersement
Putting the Calorie Count Before the Cheeseburger A provision of the Affordable Care Act that is strongly supported by Donald Trump’s administration requires calorie labels at U.S. chain restaurants. The basic idea is that if consumers are informed, they will … Continue reading Healthier eating
When It’s Hard to Make Ends Meet, Can Smart Apps Help? The recent partial government shutdown could have been a disaster for the 38 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. But … Continue reading Complexity tilts us
